(Salt Lake City, UT) — A Utah Senate committee is advancing several bills dealing with transgender youth. The Health and Human Services Committee voted 5-2 yesterday in favor of a bill that would ban gender-affirming surgery and hormone therapy treatments in Utah. The committee also voted to advance a bill […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The fight to create a new state flag has passed its first hurdle. The Senate Business and Labor Committee voted 6-1 yesterday to advance the design of the new flag to a full vote of the state Senate. The committee heard testimony from more than […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah Legislature is beginning hearings on bills targeting several controversial transgender youth-related issues. The Senate’s Health and Human Services Committee is set to discuss a bill that would block gender-affirming youth surgeries and deny hormone treatment to those under 18. Another bill coming before […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — House Speaker Brad Wilson is laying out the priorities of the Republican majority as the new session of the Utah Legislature gets underway. Wilson told lawmakers yesterday that he wanted additional action to help preserve and restore the Great Salt Lake and encourage water conservation […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah lawmakers are set to start their 45-day session today in Salt Lake City. Lawmakers come back to the State Capitol with a nearly three-billion dollar budget surplus and a mandate from the governor to increase education spending and raise teacher salaries. Republican leaders are […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utahns are urging lawmakers to do more to help preserve and restore the Great Salt Lake. Hundreds of protesters rallied at the State Capitol on Saturday to urge more action during the upcoming legislative session. The lake reached historically low water levels last year and […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — State lawmakers are giving Utahns a preview of their priorities ahead of the next session of the Utah Legislature. Governor Cox, House Speaker Brad Wilson and Senate President Stuart Adams were among the lawmakers appearing yesterday at an event held by the Salt Lake Chamber. […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah lawmakers will consider more than just tax cuts and spending proposals during the upcoming session of the state legislature. State lawmakers file hundreds of bills for consideration each year on a variety of topics. Among the bills that will be considered this year is […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Now that Colorado has legalized the possession and use of psychedelic mushrooms, a nonprofit group would like to see the same thing happen in Utah. Utah Mushroom Therapy is hoping state lawmakers will support a bill that would allow the use of psilocybin, the active […]
(Provo, UT) — A state lawmaker is resigning just a few weeks before the legislature returns to Salt Lake City for its next session. State Representative Adam Robertson of Provo plans to step down from his post on January 1st. Robertson won re-election to the legislature in November and was […]
